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Table 4 Complications following surgery according to site of primary tumour. Anastomotic dehiscence were more common after anterior resection of rectum than after surgery for colonic cancer.

From: Surgical outcomes for colon and rectal cancer over a decade: results from a consecutive monocentric experience in 902 unselected patients

 

Colon cancer

Rectal cancer

HNPCC*

Multicentric

p

Overall complications

180/476 (37.8)

151/406 (37.2)

4/8 (50)

8/12 (66.7)

0.19

Postoperative haemoperitoneum

3/476 (0.4)

2/406 (0.5)

0

0

0.98

Anastomotic dehiscence

26/456 (5.5)

33/305 (10.4)

2/8 (25)

0

0.01

Abdominal abscess

17/476 (3.6)

6/406 (1.5)

0

2/12 (16.7)

0.006

Wound complications

92/476 (19.3)

81/406 (20)

3/8 (37.5)

4/12 (37.6)

0.39

Pneumonia

16/476 (3.4)

4/406 (1)

0

4/12 (37.3)

0.025

Ileus

7/476 (1.5)

2/406 (0.5)

0

1/12 (8.3)

0.051

Urinary tract infection

8/476 (1.7)

15/406 (3.7)

0

1/12 (8.3)

0.16

CVC§infection

19/476 (4.0)

17/406 (4.2)

0

1/12 (8.3)

0.82

Cardiovascular

9/476 (1.9)

5/406 (1.2)

0

2/12 (16.7)

0.001

Others minor medical complications

8/476 (1.7)

8/406 (2.0)

0

0

0.92